Here at local food hub, we work to get more fresh local food into the community to people who need
it the most. We are a nonprofit organization here in Charlottesville that's really focused on
increasing food access and food equity, supporting small farms helping them thrive and helping them
get their food out into the community. We've got people in this community who are hungry.
Feeding America estimates that over half a million more Virginians are going hungry now
because of the pandemic than they were before and your gift to cvc will help us get food to those
people. There were two significant changes to our programming during the pandemic. Our Fresh Farmacy
fruit and veggie prescription program, which is a food access program, grew 600 percent in
2020. The second big change to our programming is this right here, our drive-through farmers market.
So when the pandemic hit all of our partner farms who we've worked with for a decade were coming to
us and saying look we've got food that is about to start rotting in the fields, so we started these
drive-through farmers markets that have been operating twice a week every week since about
march 13th of 2020. It is really easy to make a big difference with a gift to local food hub.